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I've been using C++ for the longest time, and I would never give up destructors to switch to C.

For your particular use case, have you considered C#? VS works much more nicely with it.

Yeah, I did. I want something low level and cross platform, including mobile. I think when I tried the C# for iOS stuff, nothing worked. But it's probably too much VM/runtime for me anyway, for this project.

iOS C# is more or less fine, there is quite a bit of work done in .NET to make this better still. .NET 9 gains native Swift Library Evolution ABI support even - you can literally declare DllImports against public Swift APIs by simply annotating them with [typeof(CallConvSwift)], it's not as convenient as it sounds but it's only a matter of time when the tools like https://github.com/royalapplications/beyondnet adopt this. It's going to get much better once MonoAOT is replaced with NativeAOT for all major publish modes for iOS.

Fair enough. I would've used C++ as well.

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